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6/2/2020

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Visual Soundscapes was inspired by many things.

  • The absence of man-made noise pollution for a brief time around the globe during the height of the pandemic crisis.
  • The news that seismologists around the world could see a difference in their seismometers.
  • And people reporting globally that the birds sound louder now.
  • And it was also inspired by this video of a spectrogram posted by a PhD student in Mumbai of the sounds heard during the lock-down in India,
  • The news from MIT about recalculating time with a new algorithm to analyze time series calculations of data.

Why not collect the acoustic data from before, during and after the pandemic, create a spectrogram that tracks the changes and turn that into art?

The second part of the idea:

Why not take all the satellite as well as terrain images of noise, air, light pollution from before and combine them with the images of their reduction and turn that into a composite artwork?

Why not use the things that went out of stock during the pandemic as materials for art?

Why do any of this?

Because they existed. Because it was true. And because we will forget.

#airpollution #noisepollution #deforestation #covid-19 #pandemic #earthhealing #earthsong #paintwithdata #nasaspaceapps



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    I was one of 15,000 participants from 150 countries that took part in NASA's Special Covid-19 Space Apps Virtual hackathon! This was also my very first hackathon! This website is mostly about that project, and not about me.

    My background is in psychology and art. I work mostly in the human computer interaction industry. I am a researcher, artist, writer and professional daydreamer, but not necessarily in that order always.

    You can see more of my artwork here: https://susannaraj53.wixsite.com/susannarajart
    Also here: https://susannaraj.wordpress.com/

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